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GENERAL PAPER
Paper 1
Nov./Dec. 2019
22/Jhours

UGANDA NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS BOARD

Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education

GENERAL PAPER

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Paper 1

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2 hours 40 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES: rs
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The total time of 2 hours and 40 minutes includes ten minutes for you to study the
questions before you begin answering.
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Answer two questions which must be chosen as follows: one question from section
A and one question from section B.
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Both questions should be answered in the same answer booklet provided.

No additional answer booklet should be used unless the initial one is used up.
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Ifany additional answer booklet is used, it should be fastened with thefirst one.

You are advised to divide your time equally between the two questions.
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All questions carry equal marks.

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Any additional question(s) answered will not be marked

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 SECTION A

Answer one question from this section.

Answers should be between 500 and 800 words in length.
1. 'Life imprisonment is a better way of punishing criminals than the death
penalty.' Discuss. (50 marks)
2. To what extent has Uganda succeeded in achieving the Millennium
Development Goals (MDOs)? (50 mar/cs)
3. Explain the significance of a national population census to the government
(50 mar/cs)
4. Assess the impact of constructing hydro-electricity power stations on the

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environment in Uganda. (50 mar/cs)

SECTIONB

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Answer one question from this section.
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Study the infonnation provided below and answer the questions that follow.
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A group of six well trained Commandos have been tasked by government to
arrest or kill a rebel leader that has taken refuge in a jungle.
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The mission involves locating the rebel leader's hide out, laying ambush and
attacking.
The qualities of the Commandos are:
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Alfred; is of a higher rank than Chris, energetic and has acrobatic skills
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which are useful in effecting arrests.

Betty is of a higher rank than Drake and is a medical personnel.
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Chris is of a lower rank than Alfred but shoots accurately.

Drake has no significant rank, but is good at laying ambushes.
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Eddy is of the same rank with Betty but of a lower rank than Chris. He is a
good mechanic, driver and pilot
Frank is of a higher rank than Alfred, a good map reader and a skilled spy.
During the mission, the following conditions must be observed:
• The Commandos must work in pairs.
• No pair should have Commandos of the same rank.
• The Commando with the highest rank should be the head of the
mission.

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 Questions:
(a ) (i) Giving a reason for your answer, identify the head of the
mission. (02 marks)
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State the ranking of the Commandos from the hi est to the
lowest (03 marks)

(b) Giving a reason for each case, suggest the pairing of the Commandos.
(06marks)
(c) Explain the causes of political rebel activities in developing countries.
(16marks)
(d) What are the effects of political rebellions in developing countries?
(13 marks)
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6. Read the passage below and answer the questions thatfollow.

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If you must give expression to prejudice and hatred and intolerance, do not
speak it, but write it,· write it in the sands, near the water's edge. When the dawn

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of Intelligence shall spread over the eastern horizon of human progress, and
Ignorance and Superstition shall have left their last footprints on the sands of
time, it will be recorded in the last chapter of the book of man's crimes that his 05
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most grievous sin was that of Intolerance. The bitterest intolerance grows out of

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religious, racial and economic pre judices and differences of opinion. How long,
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0 God, until we poor mortals will understand the folly of trying to destroy one
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another because we are of different religious beliefs and racial tendencies?

Our allotted time on this earth is but a fleeting moment. Like a candle, we are 10
lighted, shine for a moment, and flicker out. Why can we not learn to so live
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during this brief earthly visit that when the great Caravan called Death draws up
and announces this visit completed, we will be ready to fold our tents and
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silently follow out into the great unknown without fear and trembling?

I am hoping that I will find no Jews or Gentiles, Catholics or Protestants, 15

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Germans, Englishmen or Frenchmen when I shall have crossed the bar to the
other side. I am hoping that I will find there only human souls, brothers and
sisters all, unmarked by race, creed or color, for I shall want to be done with
intolerance so I may rest in peace throughout eternity.
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YOU visualise two animals demonstrating the futility of combat Two 20

male deers have engaged in a fight to the finish, each believing that he will
be the winner. Off at the side the female awaits the victor, little dreaming
that tomorrow the bones of both combatants will be bleaching in the sun.
"Poor foolish animals," someone will say. Perhaps, but not very different
from the man family. Man engages his brothers in mortal combat because of 25
competition. The three major forms of competition are sex, economic and
religious in nature.

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 Twenty years ago a great educational institution was doing a thriving
business and rendering a worthy service to thousands of students. The two
owners of the school married two beautiful and talented young women, who 30
were especially accomplished in the art of piano playing. The two wives
became involved in an argument as to which one was the more accomplished
in this art. The disagreement was taken up by each of the husbands. They
became bitter enemies. Now the bones of 'that once prosperous school "lie
bleaching in the sun". 35
The two deers we visualised earlier lock� horns over the attention of
the female. The two-man deer locked horns over the selfsame impulse.
In one of the great industrial plants two young foremen "locked horns"
because one received a promotion which the other believed he should have

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had. For more than five years the silent undertow of hatred and intolerance 40
showed itself. The men under each of the foremen became inoculated with the
spirit of dislike which they saw cropping out in their superiors. Slowly the
spirit of retaliation began to spread over the entire plant. The men became

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divided into little cliques. Production began to fall off. Then came fmancial
difficulty and finally bankruptcy of the company. rs 45
Now the bones of a once prosperous business "lie bleaching in the sun,"
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and the two foremen and several thousand others were compelled to start all
over again, in another field.
Down in the mountains of West Virginia lived two peaceful families of
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mountain-folk-the Hatfields and the McCoys. They had been friendly 50

neighbours for three generations. A razor-back pig belonging to the McCoy
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family crawled through the fence into the Hatfield family's com field. The
Hatfields turned their hound loose on the pig. The McCoys retaliated by
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killing the dog. Then began a feud that has lasted for three generations and
·cost many lives of the Hatfields and McCoys. 55
In a fashionable suburb of Philadelphia certain gentlemen of wealth
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have built ·their homes. In front of each house the word "INTOLERANCE" is
written. One man builds a high steel fence in front of his house. The
neighbour next to him, not to be outdone, builds a fence twice as high.
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Another buys a new motor car and the man next door goes him one better by 60
purchasing two new cars. One remodels his house adding a colonial style
porch. The man next door adds a new porch and a Spanish style garage for
good measure. The big mansion on top of the hill gives a reception which
brings a long line motor cars filled with people who have nothing in particular
in common with the host Then follows a series of '4receptions" all down the 65
"gold-coast'' line, each trying to outshine all the others.
The "Mister" (but they don't call him that in fashionable
neighbourhoods) goes to business in the back seat of a Rolls Royce that is
managed by a chauffeur and a footman. Why does he go to business? To make

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money, of course! Why does he want more money when he already has 70
millions of dollars? So he can keep on out-doing his wealthy neighbours.
Poverty has some advantages - it never drives those who are poverty­
stricken to ''lock horns" in the attempt to out-poverty their neighbours.
Wherever you see men with their "horns locked" in conflict you may
trace the cause of the combat to one of the three causes of intolerance- 75
religious difference of opinion, economic competition or sex competition.
The next time you observe two men engaged in any sort of hostility
toward each other, just close your eyes and THINK for a moment and you
may see them, in their transformed nature, very much resembling the male
deer we pictured earlier. Off at one side you may see the object of the combat- 80

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a pile of gold, a religious emblem or a female (or females).
Remember, the purpose of this essay is to tell some of the TRUTH
about human nature, with the object of causing its readers to THINK. Its

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writer seeks no glory or praise, and likely he will receive neither in connection
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Andrew Carnegie and Henry C. Frick did more than any other two men
to establish the steel industry. Both made millions of dollars for themselves.
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Came the day when economic intolerance sprang up between them. To show
his contempt to Frick, Carnegie built a tall sky-scraper and named it the
"Carnegie Building." Frick retaliated by erecting a much taller building, 90
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alongside of the Carnegie Building, naming it the "Frick Building."

These two gentlemen "locked horns" in a fight to the finish, Carnegie
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lost his mind, and perhaps more, for all we of this world know. What Frick
lost is known only to himself and the keeper of the Great Records. In memory
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their "bones lie bleaching in the sun" of posterity. 95

The steel men of today are managing things differently. Instead of
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locking horns they now "interlock directorates," with the result that each is
practically a solidified, strong unit of the whole industry. The steel men of
today understand the difference between the meaning of the words
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COMPETITION and CO-OPERATION; a difference which the 100

remainder of us would do well to understand, also.

Questions:
(a) Suggest a suitable title for this passage. (02 marks)

(b) What does the author mean by:

(i) " ... Jt never drives those who are poverty stricken to "lock
horns", ..? ( lines 72-73) (04 marks)

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 (ii) " ....their bones lie bleaching in the sun"? (line 95) (04 marks)

(c) In not more than l 00 words, summarise the causes of intolerance,

according to the passage. (10 marks)

(d) Explain the meaning of each of the following words and phrases as
used in the passage:

(i) grievous (line 06), (02 marks)

(ii) fleeting moment (line l 0), (02 marks)
(iii) fold our tents (line 13), (02 marks)
(iv) futility of combat (line 20), (02 marks)
(v) silent undertow (line 40),. (02 marks)
(vi) inoculated with the spirit.of dislike. (lines 41-42), (02 marks)

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(vii) feud (line 54), (02 marks)
(viii) transformed nature (line· 79), (02 marks)
(ix) ''locked horns" (line·92), (02 marks)
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(x) posterity (line 95).
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